2025-08-27- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 1: Comedy Off Broadway in Lexington welcomes the always hilarious Joe Dombrowski August twenty first through the twenty third, Then from Gutfeld and the Joe Rogan Experience. Catch Jeff Die August twenty eighth through the thirty and don't miss social media sensation John Christ September fourth through the sixth four. Tickets to all Comedy Off Broadway shows called E five nine two seven to one joke or visit Comedy Off Broadway dot.

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Speaker 3: This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

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Speaker 4: Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 5: Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Wednesday, August of twenty seventh. I'm at Jones. We are here at the KS Bar and Grill for day two of our reopening. We it is Wingsday. Dollar Wings from eleven am until we close. I don't know how you wouldn't want that dollar Wings from eleven am till you close. You can try the new boneless wings that we just started, or are old standards. We got new sauces, new rubs. It's all there and you give Selon Clarks Pumping Shop Full nine eight five nine twenty two eighty seven Av's and Auto glass text machine is seven seven two four five two five four in thissision sponsored by the T J.

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Speaker 6: Smith Office.

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Speaker 5: You call TJ, I'll make them pay. Guys. It's a beautiful day. I mean weather that is not late August weather. We got into the forties last night. I saw Bill Mex said this morning it was the sixteenth coldest day in August history. Wow yesterday, or at least sixteenth coldest night in the history of August.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 5: In Lexington, I went for a walk last night, and everybody has adopted my style.

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Speaker 6: Hoodie, hoodies and shorts.

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Speaker 5: Now is the preferred uh style of everyone in Lexton. You're going with them, miss Well so uh Ryan, it's perfect time here. Saturday might be knock on wood, the best weather for a Kentucky first game.

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Speaker 6: Remember last year it was a lightning and everything the whole time.

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Speaker 5: Now you might get the most pleasant day watch at football in August.

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Speaker 2: Ever, it feels like October football weather right now, and usually these early games in August already September. It's one hundred and fifty degrees out there. When you go to Croker Field. This is gonna be a that's.

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Speaker 6: Gonna be perfect.

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Speaker 5: I mean it's gonna be absolutely perfect Saturday again.

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Speaker 6: Knock on Wood.

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Speaker 5: Drew, I hear today you have a you versus Shannon pickleball feud.

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Speaker 6: Am I right?

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Speaker 7: It has been This feud has been brewing for a long time.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 7: He's been taking some unnecessary shots at me on the pre show when I haven't been able to defend myself. But today me versus STD at the new PKO Pickleball country Boy Place, and then after I beat him, he and I are teaming up to play two listeners who he picked on the pre show.

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Speaker 6: Oh, I don't know if that's a good idea.

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Speaker 5: Like after you all play, presumably frustrations come out. Because both of you are very competitive in different ways. Shannon's very competitive. I don't belie you're You're competitive in a sort of more subtle way, but Shannon's very competitive. Do you think you can put aside that competition to the team up? Should you team up first and then play each other?

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Speaker 7: My logic was, after I play Shannon, I won't have broken a sweat at that point, so it'd be a little easier because I don't know the doubles players. They might put me through a little more of a workout. Who are you going to be like a warm up, Shannon?

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Speaker 3: Who'd we pick a couple of guys that I don't have their names in front of me right now?

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Speaker 5: Oh, you just pick somebody off the radio.

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Speaker 4: It doesn't matter what their name is.

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Speaker 6: Okay, all right, we'll good.

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Speaker 3: But the Mega powers are going to explode first. Then we're going to reunite and get back together.

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Speaker 7: Okay, Well, so that's you're doing that today seven Come watch us have a colon.

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Speaker 5: Okay, so yeah, I am doing this show then at twelve o'clock, immediately flipping the ESPN radio from twelve to three. Uh so five straight I did five straight hours yesterday, going to do five straight hours today?

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Speaker 6: Uh and I have what are we talking about on the ESPN today? Oh? You know what you're talking about about?

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Speaker 2: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey. That is it?

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Speaker 6: Well I better get some practice right now. Okay.

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Speaker 5: So now look, I know it's football game week. If there's people that don't like we're leading with this, you know what, that's fine, get over it. We'll be talking about football in a second. Yesterday we're on ESPN. I don't even remember what we're discussing. It's you know, it's football, it's training camp, blah blah blah, And all of a sudden, I get the thing in my ear. They do this on ESPN when there's breaking news. Rather than me seeing it and going Shannon play the sound on ESPN, they just hit burn firm burn.

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Speaker 6: Remember that old ABC news thing.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, that's their breaking news signal for like big stuff. They don't do it just for you know, Bob signs with the Patriots.

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Speaker 6: This is burn burn.

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Speaker 5: And when you hear that, there's a part of me that's like, is the United States being invaded?

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Speaker 6: You know? I mean that's a that's like the real news signal.

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Speaker 5: And I and okay, so this now we're back to I've got a lot going on here.

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Speaker 6: There's people here for lunch.

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Speaker 5: I've got my screen, I've got my phone. I'm trying to make every Also, it was the segment where I was trying to eat a sandwich, so there was a lot happening. They do that and then I go, oh, we have breaking news, and they said, look at your screen. So of course I got to pull out my new readers and I get the screen and it says Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey engaged, and I was like, wow, I didn't.

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Speaker 6: Realize that was burn burn burn good enough. So then I.

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Speaker 5: Say, breaking news, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey are engaged.

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Speaker 6: First of all, the.

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Speaker 5: Text machine and more hilariously, ESPN Radio and my Twitter feed light up with people I go, like women, mostly going I can't believe I found out Taylor Swift was engaged from Matt Jump And I understand, why would that be how you would find that piece of news out?

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Speaker 2: Uh, you got to break it to the world love for a lot of people.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean anybody who happened to have on the ESPN Radio at that moment right, Like I probably brought because if I beat the like apps, you know, like the text you know whatever like that, those hadn't come out, so then like you have to talk about it. And the thing is, so I've been on ESPN when big time news has happened a handful of times. I was on when Tom Brady decided to come back to the NFL to play for Tampa Bay. Now, if you might remember, that was the day the NCAA tournament brackets came out. They came out like an hour after he said that, and so it kind of derailed our NCAA bracket show. The hardest show I ever did was I was on the air when that dude. You remember during the European Soccer Championships a few years ago, and it looked like a guy died on the field of a heart attack. You may remember that, Like they saved him, but like it was live on TV and they showed him and he was shaking, and like we were on radio during that.

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Speaker 6: And that's a you want to talk about a heartbreak? Like what do you even say?

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Speaker 5: And they want you to They're like, stay on thiss Like I don't know what to what do you going to say? I hope he's not he did not? Like what Like, there's not there's nothing to say. Well with this one, Drew, I felt like I could handle it, you know.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 5: And then we became into what I want to talk about, which is things like Okay, let's say you're Travis Kelson.

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Speaker 6: You want to Mary Taylor Swift?

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Speaker 5: I mean, what ring do you get? Like, how do you even know? I mean she's worth a lot more money than you are, right, I mean, she's worth she could buy one hundred and fifty of your ring.

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Speaker 6: So what do you do? Right, super Bowl ring?

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Speaker 5: She doesn't have a super Bowl ring, that's right. You could give her one of your three super Bowl rings. Then like, where do you do it? You're in training camp. I don't think you can do it in Kansas City, right, So like where where are you gonna go? Then you think about the cost of the wedding.

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Speaker 6: You know, is.

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Speaker 5: It isn't the Like, how's it work? What's the man's parents supposed to pay for the rehearsal?

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Speaker 8: Did?

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Speaker 6: Okay?

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Speaker 7: So the bride's parents get So that's good.

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Speaker 5: We can be like, all right, she's got the wedding, but the man that's an expensive rehearsal dinner if you think about it.

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Speaker 6: So those things would be in my mind, Drew.

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Speaker 5: I think it would be very intimidating to marry somebody with that much money when you're I know he's got money, but.

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Speaker 6: He didn't have her kind of honey.

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Speaker 7: I mean, she could go buy every Genesis diamonds and across America if she wanted. So there's a lot of pressure. I saw a TikTok of a woman making the ring. I don't know who she was. I guess she's some big.

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Speaker 6: How did they keep it a secret?

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Speaker 7: Yeah enough, people had to know about this for a little while, so somebody had photographers, you know, her team.

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Speaker 5: So uh so this is my question in twenty four hours later. We don't have a royal family in America, right, like, we don't. We don't do that. My mom would watch the Royal Family? What was it dot Princess died and Charles? I still remember as a kid her watching that, And then of course who got married recently?

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Speaker 6: It was like Kate and Kate and William? Is that right? Yeah? Kate William plus eight? Is this? Is this the biggest?

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Speaker 5: Will this be the biggest wedding American wedding since Win since Win Ryan? Like since like, what is what's bigger? I'm being dead serious, This isn't me just like just trying to think because we know both people that I don't know that that happens very often, and they're still like I don't know, it's not like too old pieces that people get married, Like what what is?

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Speaker 2: I think the closest United States has had to a royal wedding when John F. Kennedy married Jackie on NASA's That may be me, and.

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Speaker 6: But he wasn't he wasn't president yet, but they were still like did people you? Did people know who they were? See? I don't think so either? Like then, I mean it was it was Joe Kennedy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they were still a huge name in the Northeast.

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Speaker 6: Do you think that's as big as this?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I think we've not had one as big since then?

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Speaker 6: Did JFK.

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Speaker 5: Junior get married to somebody they were engaged with?

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Speaker 6: The married, but she wasn't famous, right.

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Speaker 2: Daryl Hannah? She was an actress?

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Speaker 6: He married Daryl Hannah from Yeah, I don't think that's true.

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Speaker 2: No, that looked like her?

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Speaker 6: What are you talking about?

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Speaker 2: Did he?

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Speaker 6: Did she look like her?

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Speaker 2: She was a blonde haired you think so?

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Speaker 6: You so you just got married because they look like each other? No?

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Speaker 2: I mean for a while, Yeah, who is the who's the she?

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Speaker 6: Mad? He made someone named Caroline? I think I may be completely You're.

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Speaker 7: Right that that rings.

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Speaker 6: Just assumed. She married Daryl Hannah.

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Speaker 5: Of course I'm gonna go, yeah, I'm gonna say she married he married uh Tina Turner. Well, so anyway, I would argue this will be the biggest wedding.

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Speaker 2: Uh of our lifetime.

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Speaker 6: I think it's probably so now.

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Speaker 5: Myron on the radio was like, they're gonna do it live on television, and I said, no, they're not. But here's that's my question. I want you because we got a lot of dudes here who have the look of people who would serious question and don't try to be tough. Okay, if it was live on TV at like six o'clock on a Saturday and you had nothing else to do, would you turn and watch the wedding? Raise your hand, yes or no? I probably would yes, Okay, thank you. Wait a minute, ma'am.

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Speaker 6: You wouldn't. You wouldn't even turn it on. You wouldn't even be curious. You wouldn't even want to see who was there. You'd want to see her dress, right.

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Speaker 5: I would want to see like if Travis Kelsey would like cut a fart in the middle of it, because I think he's kind kind of an idiot and I like that about him.

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Speaker 7: I want to see Jason dance at the reception.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I see all the other celebrities that I'd want to see the celebrities, right, I would want to see he. I totally agree, because like it would be funny to see who got invited who didn't, because there would be people who'd want to get inbided that wouldn't, And I think.

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Speaker 6: I think that would be I would watch, Well, I'm not gonna try to act like I'm above it. It won't be on TV because she probably won't do that, but I would I would watch.

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Speaker 7: Will it be bigger than the Bezos wedding we just had?

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Speaker 6: Of course it would.

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Speaker 7: I mean, like financially, like, well, she's shut down a well, I don't know that small island.

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Speaker 6: Probably not because they're gaudy, but it'll.

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Speaker 7: Be more interested. People would be more interested.

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Speaker 5: Like I don't even know what the woman he married, who what her name is? And I don't even care who's who cares about Jeff Bezos. I just thought it was like they were spending a lot of money.

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Speaker 7: I think if Taylor married a random guy off the street, it would still be one of the biggest weddings we've ever seen, if no one even knew the groom.

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Speaker 6: Here's what I think.

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Speaker 5: It's fascinating if you meet a woman who grew up what like being a Taylor Swift, So probably women forty and under thirty five and under right, I mean they were crying, ma'am when this came out yesterday, like not like crying as if they had gotten married.

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Speaker 6: No, it wouldn't.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't he.

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Speaker 6: It was like someone more than their sister got engaged. Like people were like, okay. So when I announced it are two women who aren't They were at the host stand. They started hugging each other like Kentucky had just won a game. Like they were hugging each other, And I thought, I can't imagine is there I mean, I don't know when you got married. I didn't hug anyone who was happy for you. It's amazing to me the hold she has on our culture.

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Speaker 2: That's why it will be the biggest wedding of our lifetime probably. And then they have to take it to an island, cause they do it somewhere in the United States. It'll be packed. The swifties would find a way and just crowded.

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Speaker 5: What is the biggest, big blue wedding of all time? Is there a wedding that you can remember Vince Merrow star studded UK when I when when you and I we went to Vince Marrow's wedding. If you had streamed that, every Kentucky fan would to watch because it was a who's who of UK world.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I mean you had all these former players and it's crazy that he's at Louisville now because this was just two years ago. But you had all these former players, you had all the big donors, you had all the u UK people.

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Speaker 6: There were media like it was that.

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Speaker 5: That's probably the closest thing we've ever had at UK was Vince's.

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Speaker 7: Well, just at the church for the ceremony, I had like Jack Gibbons to my right and Tim Couch to my left. I remember whispering to I'd be like, what in the world have we walked into here?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: I think we even called it our UK Royal way was Mark Stoops was a groomsman like he was wearing the bow tie and all that.

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Speaker 6: He was like standing up there. You know.

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Speaker 5: Vince was up there with his like brothers and there was needle bead Mark Stoops right in the.

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Speaker 7: Middle of the football football players were the ushers. Joshkatis walked us to our seat.

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Speaker 6: Yeah. One person that wasn't invited the UK royal wedding. Do you remember who was? No John Cobery that was you kind of knew things weren't. This was when he was still the coach. That was what if. If you ever want for people are like, oh, football and basketball were fine. Just remember that cow didn't get an invite to the football wedding. I think that was part of the thing.

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Speaker 7: That's by far the answer to your question.

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Speaker 5: It is now eight five nine twenty two eighty seven texta sheets seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. A ranking came out yesterday of just raw talent of the football rosters in college football, just raw talent. I want you to guess right now in your mind, don't say it or look it up where Kentucky would be nationwide, just raw talent.

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Speaker 6: And I'll tell you what where they came up with. This is like by metrics, not just recruiting rankings. That's next here. I can't start. Welcome back.

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Speaker 5: Take you sports Radio eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. We had a guy here just say something to me that I meant to bring up. Who's working on that prenup?

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Speaker 4: A really good lawyer house.

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Speaker 6: Yeah it somebody.

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Speaker 5: I saw a tweet last night that said the prenup will be longer than any book. Travis Kelsey has read, which I thought Shannon was a great lie.

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Speaker 7: Than anything he's read.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's gonna be like that pre du I mean, if I'm her lawyers, they've already start all right, like they have to.

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Speaker 2: That had to be in place maybe before the she's head.

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Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, no doubt that prenup will be amazing. What personal rights, Matt. I wouldn't have watched Vince's wedding. I am a fan of what happens on the field. I don't believe that. Stop you're listening to this show. I mean, like we're not totally about what's on the field. You'd have watched it.

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Speaker 2: Of course, it was in the summer and there's no sports going on.

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Speaker 4: To Who's I tell you this.

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Speaker 5: You wouldn't have even had to know who the people are to be entertained at the reception. Now, there was some stuff going going on through sex, except for when Vince was singing.

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Speaker 6: You could have ignored that because he has a horrible voice.

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Speaker 7: Still have video that on my phone if we need to use it any point.

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Speaker 5: All right, So what was your gas on what Kentucky football's talent level?

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Speaker 2: Seventy one seventy one. I'm gonna say seventy one.

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Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, what.

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Speaker 7: Would you say, not seventy one, I'll say forty one.

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Speaker 4: H Shannon forty five.

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Speaker 3: Oh.

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Speaker 5: Here's the good news. According to the UH, I think it was Toverrik power rating. So this is rating how much talent is on the field for each team. We have the twenty seventh most talented team in the country. That's shocking for comparison sake Louisll's forty.

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Speaker 6: Wow. Here's the problem.

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Speaker 5: Almost everybody who plays ahead of us, including and by the way, we're like fourteenth in the SE's thirteenth in the SEC, now fourteenth. We are only ahead in terms of raw talent of Vandia, Missouri, even Mississippi State's ahead of us.

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Speaker 6: Everyone's ahead of us. So and I actually think it's probably correct, Drew.

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Speaker 5: I think if you go look at the talent on that field, we probably do have.

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Speaker 6: The twenty seventh best talent.

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Speaker 5: And if we played in the ACC, just looking at again, just looking at this, played in the ACC, we would have the third most talent in the ACC. In the Big Twelve, we would have the second most talent in the Big twelve. But the problem is we're playing in a conference where fourteen of the twenty or thirteen of the twenty six teams ahead of us are in that conference.

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Speaker 6: The Big Ten, by the.

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Speaker 5: Way, I think, has ten teams ahead of us or something like that. So it's awesome. So like it's almost like we're not as bad as we think we are, but it may not matter because the teams are so even the teams that are we're playing are ahead of it.

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Speaker 7: That's what we've been saying for months. We know the team's improved, we just don't know what that will actually mean when they start playing. Twenty seventh seems a little high. I mean, I haven't gone through every roster, but you know it's not that crazy if you start breaking it down. We've got like just a couple examples of players like a McGowan was supposed to be running back one at Oklahoma few years ago and off the field problems, but just from a talent standpoint, that's a talented guy. The receiver room, it's got some injuries and some transfers, and there's all these different circumstances, but from a talent standpoint, there's some highly rated recruits that are still on this roster.

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Speaker 5: And I'm not saying Ryan that it's necessarily correct, and I'm not gonna say it's it's gonna happen this year. But if you don't believe the number, go back and think about the Kentucky Louisville game. Over the last few years, we've had a number of years where Louisville's had a better record than us, has come in favored and then we've kind of handled them. Now, it didn't happen last year, obviously, but we have, and I think it's in part because when the game actually starts, we have more talent than they do. Again, I don't know if that's true this year, but it's been true most years.

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Speaker 2: Two years ago, for sure, they a lot more talent than we did. We went over there and beat them.

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Speaker 6: No, I think it's the opposite. They had a better record than we did.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's but.

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Speaker 6: I don't think they had more talent.

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Speaker 5: No, And I I think you could make an argument that even going into this year, if you just look at the talent, not the coaching, I mean, then this is where coaching comes in. The talent might be a lot more than people think, but we also play good teams and we got to coach.

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Speaker 7: Them, and it shows the most when you play Louisville and teams outside the SEC in the trenches. That's why we need our offensive line to be talented, because even a Toledo that's a good team, if your offensive line is shoving them around, it won't be much.

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Speaker 6: Of a game. Actually, I think that's the best point. If you want to look at why Kentucky's been so good in the last few years, you'd see it in the trenches. You'd see it in the offensive line.

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Speaker 5: Whatever advantage we had over Louisville, when our offensive line stunk last year, that advantage goes away.

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Speaker 6: I think that's actually teams can go get speed.

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Speaker 7: Louisville we all know if had very flashy players, but when Kentucky was dominating, they were just doing whatever they wanted on the ground behind that offensive line.

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Speaker 2: I was surprised the number was that low. You asked that question for the commercial break. I was thinking, Okay, how many NFL players do you think?

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Speaker 5: I wink seventy one though, I mean if it was seventy one, that would mean every team in the SEC, every team in the Big Ten, and most of the ACC in Big twelve. You think we're that bad.

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Speaker 2: I just thought we had so many unknowns and no very few NFL caliber players at this point. I thought of just too many question marks. I thought that I thought they wouldn't give any respect at all. I thought this would be one of those ratings where we would be really disrespected.

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Speaker 6: Well, Daryl Hannah, by the way, did date JFK Junior for five years, but they didn't get married.

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Speaker 2: Didn't get married.

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Speaker 6: Were you very invested in that relationship?

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Speaker 2: I was very invested. They were the Travis Kelcey and Taylor Swift of the nineties. You see your eighties, so that somebody said to me that they dated like for five years before he dated Carolyn Bussy.

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Speaker 5: By the way, just a little bit on eighty last night, I made the mistake of going I turned on ESPN radio late at night. I don't listen to sports radio because it just frustrates me because things like this happened.

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Speaker 6: And I like this guy.

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Speaker 5: But Ian Fitzsimmons, right, Ian Fitzimmons, who the guy who always calls everybody coach. He was on there and he was talking about Miami playing I think Notre Dame to start the season. He was talking about how college football is better when Miami's good. People all remember that you and bah bah this he was like.

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Speaker 6: And then I sat there and thought about it for a minute, and I was like, you know what, that was the late eighties. You know how long ago? That was thirty five plus years ago.

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Speaker 5: Do you know what that would have been, like, Drew, if someone had said to me in nineteen ninety five when I was in high school, college football would be better if the teams in the late fifties were still good.

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Speaker 6: We don't process that. But the late eighties now are like the fifties were in the nineties.

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Speaker 7: Thanks for that.

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Speaker 6: I appreciate that. So I wanted to be like Ian. We're gonna have to update our references just a little bit. We'll take a break. Right back, It's KISR. TJ. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call TJ.

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Speaker 6: Welcome back, Tekey Sports Radio.

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Speaker 5: Here at Ksbar its Wings day, Dollar Wings all day and night. Come by and see the new place and the new menu and check them out. All right, we have some breaking news. Shannon running on ah our UK has just announced along with JMI, the details of their new BBN NIL partnership for the athletes. The announcement the documents will be on KSR here. Momentarily, I spoke with some folks. I was appreciated them doing this. You may have heard a couple weeks ago when they did something like this. I said, Hey, I wish i'd kind of known, just so I would have an ability to explain. They gave me a heads up yesterday, So let me explain how they explained it to me and what it is and my general okay with it, but.

00:23:58
Speaker 6: A little bit of concern.

00:23:59
Speaker 5: But base BBN ANDIL is going to be a partnership portal. So let me explain what players did up until this point in the last few years. If I'm a player, Ryan Lemon is an athlete, he comes to UK and most of them would have an agent, an agent whose job it would be to If ks Barr wanted to do a deal with Ryan Lemon, I would go to the agent and we would try to work it out. Some kids, however, didn't even have agents. Now the basketball players did, but like a random football player might not or it might be kind of a guy or man or woman that he didn't really want him around, but like you had to talk to him.

00:24:35
Speaker 6: And then sometimes when they got to town.

00:24:36
Speaker 5: Local people would try to help them, and then sometimes you know, Club Blue would try to help them. There was a lot of different ways it worked. It was kind of a hodgepodge and it was kind of a mess. Sometimes if you wanted to contact the player, you didn't even really know how to do it right. What UK will now offer to players is when you come to UK, we will be your point of contact. Players can have other points of contact, and I would argue the biggest stars will They will still have their own agent, but UK will provide a portal where they can do your deals. Now, this was what was important to me, the play. If you're a player at UK, you sign into this, you agree to this, and they can get you deals with the two hundred official UK partners, but you are still allowed to get deals with other people.

00:25:33
Speaker 6: That's good.

00:25:34
Speaker 5: One of my concerns was UK was gonna have it to where if you didn't do it with one of UK's official partners, you couldn't do it and it would hurt us in recruiting. You're still gonna be able to do it. Here's how this is gonna work in practice. Ryan, this is how it's gonna work. I'm recruiting Ryan Lemon to come play basketball. I'm going to give you three point seven million dollars to come play basketball in Kentucky. One point five of that's gonna come from my revenue share, and BBN NIL is going to say we'll get you two point two from somewhere else from one of these partnerships, And essentially BBN NIL is kind of taking the role of guarantee or for what the rev share can't do. I think every school is gonna have some version of this. I think a lot of schools are gonna keep it separate from the University. UK has taken a risk, UK is putting this in house. Does it work? I'm a little skeptical, only because I don't think this official partner is gonna do deals with like let's use this example. Okay, I am car dealership in Lexington. I want to do a deal with Trent Noah. Is BB and IL gonna only sell to Don what's.

00:26:59
Speaker 6: The official Paul Miller Ford?

00:27:02
Speaker 5: Or are they also gonna sell to Don Franklin. I'm told they might still also sell to Don Franklin. But I want to see how that plays out. But at the end of the day, Drew, all fans are gonna care about is do we have enough money to get the players. I'm told UK believes under this setup, this gives them the best chance to get the revenue they need to go get the players, and it'll test itself over time.

00:27:25
Speaker 6: But I will say very few other schools are doing it this way. You gotta have a lot of faith in JMI. Like JMI.

00:27:33
Speaker 5: Now, JMI is not just about putting on a good pre and postgame show. JMI is gonna be about getting us players and that company.

00:27:41
Speaker 6: We're gonna need it to work.

00:27:43
Speaker 7: You know, me just walking around with all the faith in JMI in the world. But really, though, if you say a megastar that does command million four million, you know, like a Stokes Okay, I mean, how can what if they don't go out and get it? Did you do other does a reputation get out? Well, here's what's gonna all.

00:28:00
Speaker 5: No, if they don't go out and get it, JMI is gonna have to pay for it. So I mean, ultimately, like like and then if JAMI is not able to pay for it, then it'll hurt us.

00:28:12
Speaker 6: But what I said a couple of weeks ago remains true.

00:28:16
Speaker 5: It used to be that if UK Athletics succeeded or failed, you could say that is Mitch Barnhart's fault, that is Mark Pope's fault, that is Mark Stoop's fault.

00:28:29
Speaker 6: You had a place to point your decision.

00:28:32
Speaker 5: I think it is completely fair to say now that there's a new entity that will be part of deciding if UK works. It's not just gonna be President Eli Cappeluto. It's not just gonna be Mitch Barnhardt. It's not just gonna be Mark Pope and Mark Stoops. It is also going to be this entity of Jami. That business has to work for Kentucky to be good at sports, and whether they will or not will be determined over time.

00:29:00
Speaker 2: You answered the question and what Drew said that you get this big time recruit. He's promised two point two million, Don Franklin, Paul Miller four where these guys can't come up with it. Jmi has to cover those so the kids still gets his money.

00:29:12
Speaker 5: If I had well, I mean, the kids still gets his money. If you want to get players in the future. I mean, if you want to stiff the kid, then you ain't gonna get players in the future. And there are schools out there, by the way that did stiff kids and they it got it hurt them in recruiting. I think Syracuse, uh maybe in Florida State, Florida State at Florida, and like they weren't able to get players. So you know, the company will have to make that choice. But is there something I said a few weeks ago. UK Athletics and JAMI are in a lot of ways now the same thing. And I don't love that. I think public private partnerships can be good, but private entities, like basically taking over a public entity is never good. But that's just my opinion. But this is the way it's gonna be, and you know, we have to hope.

00:30:10
Speaker 6: Like, let me give an example.

00:30:11
Speaker 5: UK handed over their dorms basically to private companies, and you know what, it kind of worked. I think they're better now than they used to be, so I actually think that.

00:30:23
Speaker 6: That decision worked, for lack of it was generally successful.

00:30:30
Speaker 5: I think UK basically handed their media broadcast to Jaymiine. I don't know that that always worked. Will this work we have examples of it working. We have some examples of it not working. So we'll see if this works. So we should have given it to the housing company.

00:30:50
Speaker 6: Would handle it. The housing company, I actually think did a pretty good job, at least I don't know who they were, kind of thought they did a pretty good job.

00:30:58
Speaker 2: So we'll says there have to be like an office of people that are not employed by UK and not employed by JMI. That kind of be the laison for this no partnership.

00:31:07
Speaker 6: No.

00:31:07
Speaker 5: Under the new rules, the JAMI people can negotiate with these recruits directly. So you remember I told you about a year ago how recruiting worked at UK. Mark Pope wants a player. Mark Pope says, I want this player. He would call or someone would call the collective and say go get this player. And I think our collective did a pretty amazing job in the last two years of doing it. Now that phone call is to JMI, and now it's JMI that that becomes responsible. And the only my only skepticism is I had a lot of trust in the in the the guy that was doing it before, and now we'll see what happens with these people.

00:31:45
Speaker 7: And they just had a great offseason under the nailed.

00:31:49
Speaker 5: I hope people understand the way we were doing it before we kind of were killing it. We got a football roster that, whether the team is good or not, it's a lot better than it could have been. And we got a basketball roster where, with the exception of Donovan Dent, they pretty much got everybody they wanted and they really only lost one guy because of money, and it was that Lamar Wilkerson guy.

00:32:15
Speaker 6: And I think they'll be all right with with without him.

00:32:18
Speaker 7: And that was good show content for us.

00:32:20
Speaker 6: And that was when Ryan picked the wrong one.

00:32:23
Speaker 2: Yep to the night before he was coming to Kentucky, we do the show the next day. He ain't coming to Kentucky, right, So.

00:32:28
Speaker 5: For fans, I would say, look, fans, you're gonna care about one thing, do we win or not?

00:32:35
Speaker 6: Right, And in that respect, that's all that's gonna matter.

00:32:40
Speaker 5: But when we don't get a player, sometimes it might not be Mark Poper Mark Stoop's fault anymore. There's another entity involved at this point, and we're gonna have to start keeping that in mind. In the same way that when I watched the Reds, sometimes I blame Terry Francona like when he bunted with our best hitter with two guys on and nobody out, and when we were down in LA in the third inning. But then sometimes I might blame the GM right for not getting a power hitter at the trade deadline. So we have a chance to be good now. JMI is kind of our GM. So, Bourbon lovers, the Commonwealth Causes August Bourbon Raffle is tomorrow, August twenty eighth. Twenty thousand dollars lineup, including the what Weller Millennium Tell me what that is again?

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00:33:49
Speaker 6: Kentucky Sports Radio, Welcome.

00:33:54
Speaker 5: Back, Tukey Sports Radio eight five nine two eight twenty two eighty seven. Hey, there you go, Thank you very much. Here at ks Bar and Grill. One person writes, Matt, why does it JM? I just hire the people that were doing the collective? They got too much money, they wouldn't want to do it. I'm sure they were, they were financially well off. I don't think they need to do it. One person rights, Matt, how was Ryan's TV shoot yesterday?

00:34:19
Speaker 6: How'd that go? Ther National TV to commercial? Debut?

00:34:22
Speaker 2: Went great? Yeah, he had a you know, a script that I kind of got emotional and broke down a little bit trying to read it. But outside of everything went well, you got emotional, got emotional?

00:34:31
Speaker 6: How so well?

00:34:32
Speaker 2: They I don't know, just brought it all back that time. You know, I was in New Lays. You were with me when it happened in Boston. Man, I broke down. It just kind of brought it all back.

00:34:39
Speaker 6: So the question was, so, are you gonna be crying on this national commercial?

00:34:42
Speaker 2: I hope, I hope they cut that out.

00:34:44
Speaker 6: They're not going, Oh no, that's what they're there for. If you're going, if you're crying, that will definitely be in the commercial.

00:34:51
Speaker 7: Great, let's tell they're getting their message across. How impactful it was?

00:34:56
Speaker 6: Yeah?

00:34:56
Speaker 5: I mean, why that shouldn't surprise you. If you're crying, they're gonna be like, that's what we want.

00:35:01
Speaker 6: You used to do news.

00:35:02
Speaker 7: You know how it works.

00:35:03
Speaker 2: I know. I it wasn't like they had the question that got me, like, you know what happened when you got back from Boston and you saw your son and then I can remember the moment, you know, I saw him. He just broke down. That made me break down, you know, and so long we started telling the story. Broke down again in front of everybody, right in front of the camera.

00:35:21
Speaker 6: Well, I look forward to seeing you, like during the super Bowl maybe Ryanalarm dot com? Right, Ryan shows up? Who's up first? Ship? No?

00:35:29
Speaker 4: Uh?

00:35:29
Speaker 6: Noah, go ahead and Noah, hey man.

00:35:33
Speaker 8: I just got to say, as a fellow of Eastern Kentucky and it's been really cool to see Mark bow when he saw him last weekend taking the boys for the Team down the Eastern Kentucky. You've seen all the great places of Natural Bridge, Red River Gorge and all that.

00:35:47
Speaker 6: Yeah, I love that looking backyards.

00:35:48
Speaker 8: We met a lot of ways with that.

00:35:51
Speaker 6: Did you guys.

00:35:51
Speaker 8: See the the pizza place that he took them to.

00:35:56
Speaker 5: Mcguil's right, they took him to Miguel's right, that's the place at the Gorge.

00:35:59
Speaker 8: You got, yes, so you got to know about the Placelane.

00:36:03
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I've heard about I've never been, but I've heard about it over the years.

00:36:07
Speaker 5: It's uh, Miguel's is being the like, you know, the place to go there. Yeah, appreciate the caul.

00:36:12
Speaker 6: They actually just they actually just I'm sorry, sir.

00:36:17
Speaker 5: They actually just ranked the top fifty pizza places in America, one in each state, and they named a place in Louisville, Shannon.

00:36:25
Speaker 6: Is the place for Kentucky the Post. Have you ever had that? Yeah?

00:36:29
Speaker 4: I think I have had the Post before. It is that?

00:36:31
Speaker 6: Do you think it's the best?

00:36:32
Speaker 3: No?

00:36:33
Speaker 6: No, okay, well that's not very nice.

00:36:35
Speaker 4: I think it's good. But do I think it's the best. No, I don't, honestly don't think it's the best I've ever had.

00:36:40
Speaker 6: Where is it? I can't think of where it is?

00:36:43
Speaker 4: Yeah, I can't, you know, I can't.

00:36:44
Speaker 6: It's in German down.

00:36:46
Speaker 4: I can't remember. It's been a long time.

00:36:47
Speaker 6: That was the That was the Kentucky pick. What your what do you think is the best pizza in uh? In Lexington?

00:36:54
Speaker 7: Currently, I'm doing ads for Denado's, so shout out to Natos. I've been to Miguel's.

00:36:58
Speaker 6: It's it's not say non change.

00:37:00
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I we'll say about Miguel's. Their pizza is fun, it's good, but it's more about the experience there. You're usually just hiked. There's like camping ground all around. It is a place in Kentucky. A lot of people need to check out.

00:37:09
Speaker 5: By the way, today is the eighty fifth birthday of Dairy Queen. It is eighty five years of Dairy Queen today. I think they're celebrating that. Maybe some deal on blizzards today. Are you pro dairy Queen?

00:37:24
Speaker 6: Oh?

00:37:24
Speaker 2: Was it dairy Queen yesterday?

00:37:25
Speaker 5: Don't park it, Dairy Queen, don't talk Saturday. At least don't park in the nine spaces that they own over there.

00:37:31
Speaker 6: But yes, you are pro?

00:37:32
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, uh, yoga girl and I went and got a blizzard yesterday. If we came here and put up the new banner, went over here and got a blizzard.

00:37:37
Speaker 3: That's the thing, though, You go for the blizzard or the breakfast. Nobody's going there for dinner, right Yeah.

00:37:41
Speaker 5: See, I I don't know that I've ever eaten dairy queen food. I've eaten the blizzard. I probably at some point had something for breakfast, but I've never eaten a dairy queen meal.

00:37:57
Speaker 7: I have, but it's easily been a decade, probably going back to when I lived in Madisonville. I remember they serve gravy with their chicken tenders.

00:38:05
Speaker 2: I think they do.

00:38:07
Speaker 7: Yes anytime I recently or in the last whatever, it's been just for a blizzard.

00:38:12
Speaker 5: This dairy queen right over here. It only there's only one person ever working there, and I feel bad for the person because the person always seems so stressed out, which if I was the only person I would be, I would be stressed out too. And one of the things that they'll say to me is sometimes you know, our blizzard machine is being whatever. And I feel like saying to him, Shannon, if your dairy queen, you gotta make sure the blizzard machine, no reason anybody's coming, if nothing else is working, you gotta make sure that works.

00:38:48
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, I mean, what does anybody else coming to get there? Although some places, I will say some dairy queens, not all have country ham and biscuit and for breakfast.

00:38:58
Speaker 5: That our country ham and it would be good you're saying you can get that at dairy Queen.

00:39:02
Speaker 3: Sometimes you can in Mount Washington you can at that one. I don't know about every dairy Queen, but some of them it's really good.

00:39:08
Speaker 5: By the way, I also saw on TikTok they did the I want to use language that I can say with my mom listening. It was the It was the towns in Kentucky where you're the most or least likely to find somebody for hanky panky?

00:39:27
Speaker 6: Is that a good way to saypampionship a great way to companionship, but not long term.

00:39:33
Speaker 7: An experience, very brief experience.

00:39:36
Speaker 6: Yeah. Number can I give you the top three in Kentucky? Wait to hear it. Number three was more Head, Uh. Number two was Richmond.

00:39:48
Speaker 5: I feel like that's kind of fair, right, And then number one was Newport, And I kind of think that's fair too. If you're yeah, well you haven't been to Newport. I'm not saying no, it's not that you would want. It's just where it was. But you know what, you know what city came in last, Mount Washington. Mount Washington was the worst place in Kentucky.

00:40:12
Speaker 4: We're wholesome in Mount Washington.

00:40:14
Speaker 5: I think that's what it was that you all were, but were too wholesome and to drinking too much mountain dew for any hanky.

00:40:20
Speaker 4: Peigan, nobody's got teeth. Nobody wants hanky panky, but somebody teeth.

00:40:24
Speaker 6: Just the rest of the list was.

00:40:28
Speaker 5: Lexington, by the way, was number four, and then number five I thought it was interesting was Ashland.

00:40:35
Speaker 6: So the top five in.

00:40:36
Speaker 5: Kentucky were Newport, Richmond, Morehead, Lexington, and Ashland.

00:40:40
Speaker 7: Not Louisville, did Madisonville or Middlesbrough.

00:40:44
Speaker 5: Middlesborough did not see Madisonville, just saw those top five.

00:40:48
Speaker 6: But I did notice that Mount Washington was last place. If you're looking for companionship.

00:40:54
Speaker 2: Will you when you said Newport, we all it makes you kind of cringe. We all know the history of Newport makes you a little bit cringey.

00:41:00
Speaker 5: Also know, as somebody that went all across the state with Ramel Bradley, that was a pretty accurate list for him.

00:41:08
Speaker 2: Shout out, Shout out the more headed.

00:41:13
Speaker 6: Richmond, shout out to shout out to Rameil. Who's next. Let's go to Kelly, Kelly, go ahead, Kelly.

00:41:20
Speaker 9: Hey, Ryan uh I was in cognitive behavioral therapy for about a year and a half to work on some mental issues I was in. I would highly recommend, giving your loneliness that you've been talking about, to maybe consider signing up for something like that, because I can tell you, one man to another, best thing I've ever done for my own health and it's not even close.

00:41:43
Speaker 6: There you go. Well, I just I got like twenty seconds real quick.

00:41:46
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I wanted to see if you all had seen about the EVP issue you were talking about yesterday, if any of those people have been threatened with debt collections yet by actual debt collecting something not.

00:41:58
Speaker 6: Yet, not yet. I appreciate the call.

00:42:00
Speaker 5: But the article did say that that could happen, but it has not happened yet. That was in the Lexington Herald article.

00:42:08
Speaker 6: So there you go.

00:42:09
Speaker 2: Those people need to keep that money. They made a mistake. Let them keep it.

00:42:12
Speaker 6: Yes, they need it. Well that you've made that, I don't disagree with you.

00:42:16
Speaker 5: If I'm nine twenty two eighty seven, we're opening up the doors. Now it's Wednesday, dollar Wings. We'll take a break very back. KSR.